Downstream news

Registration has now opened for Tank Storage Asia, which returns to Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands Expo & Convention Centre on 25 and 26 September 2019.

GlobalData has reported that Israel has gone through an energy production revolution and will become a gas exporter in the Eastern Mediterranean region by the mid-2020s.

Standic will build a new chemical storage terminal in Port of Antwerp, doubling its capacity.

Sulzur looks at how weld overlay for coker drums can be carried out effectively, using finite element analysis.

Rystad Energy believes that OPEC+ countries will not be able to increase oil production levels in the second half of 2019 without having a detrimental effect on oil prices.

GAIL has successfully produced metallocene linear-low density polyethylene at its Indian plant.

RTK has released its REflex Quick Change Seat Control Valve, targeted at noise reduction and high pressure drop applications.

BASF and Lutianhua have signed a MoU to build a pilot plant for a new process in synthetising dimethyl ether developed by BASF and Linde.

Zachry Group and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America Inc. have been awarded a polyethylene unit construction contract.

GobalData reports that Asia and North America will lead global polyethylene capacity additions by 2023.